Employers consider time and techniques when interviewing. Over the last several weeks, we have discussed various techniques. This week, we are going to look at two more. Read More »
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the behavioral interview and the situational interview
January 22, 2009 – 6:33 pm
Said earlier, employers are sensitive to their most valuable asset – time. While interviewing, employers will use many questioning or probing techniques to learn about your values, your thinking processes, your skills and your experience and will do it quickly.
Faced with specific situations in your past or hypothetically, employers want to know what happened and what you learned, or how you would respond. Today, I am going to cover two ways in which this is done. Read More »
the first interview / the screening interview
December 31, 2008 – 6:32 pm
Employers are sensitive to their most valuable asset – time. Employers realize there are many job seekers who are skillful writers or many job seekers that have paid a skillful writer to help create their resume and cover letter.
Why am I sharing this? Because most employers use the first interview / screening interview to further qualify the type of job seeker they are looking for. Here’s how they do it and what you can expect. Read More »
your interview will get you your job
December 23, 2008 – 6:30 pm
Congratulations on getting the interview. Your presentation of your resume and cover letter did what they were supposed to do and probably through an email or a quick phone conversation the interview time is set. That was the easy part. Now comes the hard part. But the hard part isn’t the hard part if you make the time to do what’s right and get ready. Read More »
your resume will get you your interview
December 16, 2008 – 6:29 pm
Visualize this. The hiring manager has a stack of emailed resumes, some with cover letters, some without, in their inbox, plus some faxes and some mailed ones all representing people who are applying for the same interview (notice the words “applying for the same interview”). On the first pass, the hiring manager is going to filter down that pile to a manageable number. Each resume with cover letter will get a quick scan, looking for reasons to exclude the vast majority of them (in effect, their job is to say, “No”). Read More »
